FSX & FSWIDE & WINDOWS 7

[bal09]

I have just purchased fswide and fsuipc.... i am trying to run fsx and active sky on one pc all fine setup and in addons the menu is ok showing fsuipc

on my laptop with fswide client i am trying to run squawkbox 4realtime... and pegasus from bav.... none of these seem to work...

I have checked my network it is fine no problemsall firewalls are off so no problem there... the fswide client just says waiting for connection and nothing worksthe log says it has found my games pc and given an ip address of 80.x.x.x this is weird as that is a real internet address...

please help how can i get this working this was my only reason for buying fswide

[Pete Dowson]

I have just purchased fswide and fsuipc....

I assume you must mean WideFS, as I've never heard of "fswide".

i am trying to run fsx and active sky on one pc all fine setup and in addons the menu is ok showing fsuipc

Okay.

on my laptop with fswide client i am trying to run squawkbox 4realtime... and pegasus from bav.... none of these seem to work..

Squawkbox 4 does not use either FSUIPC or WideFS, so I'm afraid you need to refer to their support, as I cannot support other folks programs.

I've no idea what "realtime" and "pegasus from bav" are. You'll need to clarify that. Generally, for support for folks programs you need to go to their own websites.

I have checked my network it is fine no problemsall firewalls are off so no problem there... the fswide client just says waiting for connection and nothing worksthe log says it has found my games pc and given an ip address of 80.x.x.x this is weird as that is a real internet address...

If WideClient is not connecting and Windows is converting your Server name into an invalid address, then this is always down to the way your router is set up. As stated in notes in the Updates announcement in this Forum:

Note: For WideFS problems with Windows seemingly translating the FS server PC's names into IP addresses on the Internet, please see this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=80129&p=485479#p485479

In the latest (possibly as yet unreleased?) WideFS Technical document I have added this section:

DNS systems sometimes give weird Internet IP addresses instead of the correct ones for your Server PC

Some folks have had problems with automatic Server recognition, or even using the Server Name, with odd IP addresses occurring such as "208.67.216.132", which when traced appears to belong to some Internet Provider somewhere else.

This often seems to be related to having modems or routers set to use OpenDNS, and these then seem to refuse to resolve local DNS names (as assigned by DHCP) on the network. The fix is to configure the router to not use an alternative DNS server.

If you cannot figure out how to resolve the settings there, you could always try specifying your server's IP address in the WideClient.INI file via the ServerIPAddr parameter. You'll need to provide the Protocol parameter too!

Regards

Pete

[bal09]

FS Realtime is an app to keep the time syncd with the region your flying in...

and pegasus is ba virtual program for flight logging...

I will try doing the things mentioned and post again

[Pete Dowson]

FS Realtime is an app to keep the time syncd with the region your flying in...

Ah, Joshua Robertson's FSRealTime. Yes, I use that.

Regards

Pete

[bal09]

ok finally sorted it out .....

it was looking for an ip address on the internet ....

but what you can do is edit the hosts file using notepad under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc and just put a line to say what the remote pc is

eg

10.1.1.1 games

then job done.... works a treat